What's up with the Gov't? They seem to have no idea. Taking the easy way out? They need to try harder, a lot harder!
If they are mentally not capable of pleading then they cant plead to the charges. You either let them go back into the community or you detain them for their safety and the communities.
I am not 100% sure what the answer is.
At least they are doing this;
"One of the Territory's answers to the dilemma of having the mentally impaired in prison is a complex next door to the Alice Springs jail.
The safe and secure facility will be opened in the next few months. It will house eight adults and eight young people.
Ms Lawrie says a similar facility will also open in Darwin, as well as a specialist forensic health facility that will open in 2014."I will tell you a story. About 15 yrs ago there was a fella in the town I worked in that thought he was the reincarnation of a scottish medieval war hero. He was involved in lots of altercations with people but was not mentally capable of being charged. We would arrest him, then take him up to the hospital and schedule him as a mental patient. There was no practical way of keeping him from harming himself or others. Still dont know why but the hospital would keep him for a while then release him.
After a couple of years he found a bloke he thought was an english soldier from the middle ages. He beat him to death.
